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New York City parents working in the private sector will now be able to use the constantly-evolving Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19. The...

New York City parents working in the private sector will now be able to use the constantly-evolving Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to have their…

The New York City Council passed a bill granting parents or legal guardians of children four hours of paid leave for COVID-19 child vaccination time, per child and per vaccine...

On November 23, 2021, the New York City Council passed a bill amending its Earned Safe and Sick Time Act requiring all private-sector employers to provide their employees with four...

Seyfarth Synopsis:  As expected, on Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed New York States COVID-19 Vaccine Paid Leave Bill into law. The law took immediate effect and will expire on December 31, 2022. On March 12, Governor Cuomo  signed legislation granting public and private employees up to 4 hours of paid leave per COVID-19 vaccine injection. As reported in our prior  alert, it is not clear whether the bill, which took effect immediately, will be retroactively effective for...

Part VII of our “Paid Leave and Coronavirus” series, the New York COVID-19 Paid Leave Law provides for job-protected employer funded paid and unpaid sick leave,[1] as well as an expansion of the state’s paid family leave (“PFL”) and statutory disability benefits, to certain employees who are “subject to mandatory or precautionary orders of quarantine or isolation” related to COVID-19. Unlike most other state and local COVID-19 emergency or supplemental paid sick leave mandates in...

  As a reminder, a “fast food employee” is any individual working in a fast food establishment whose job duties include at least one of the following: customer service, cooking, food or drink preparation, delivery, security, stocking supplies or equipment, cleaning or routine maintenance. In addition, “fast food establishment” is any establishment in New York serving food or drink items: Where patrons order or select items and pay before eating and such items may be consumed on the pre...

Yves here. This headline hook is the lofty cost of DoorDash shares relative to delivery drivers’ meager wages, but the post goes further and documents some of the indignities that these workers suffer, like having no where to pee while on duty. One of my friends in New York City puts the situation bluntly: “We are now a minority-majority city. We whites here to a large degree occupy a similar position to whites in South Africa before the end of apartheid. We have servants who are nearly alw...